Elizabeth I and Her World
Susan Watkins
Photographs by Mark Fiennes
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| ‘Informative and well written ... highly recommended’ | | – Library Journal |
| ‘A thoroughly enjoyable study of how Elizabeth I established herself in the hearts of her subjects’ | | – Contemporary Review |
In this intimate account of a remarkable national transformation, Susan Watkins relates the extraordinary tale of how Elizabeth I set out to capture the hearts of
her people.
In plays and pageants, in cameos and medallions and portraits, in the great country houses, interior furnishings and gardens, the royal image was specifically tailored to evoke devotion. To love Elizabeth was to love England and the Queen personified both an era and a national style.
Here, the author paints a brilliant picture of the young Elizabeth, skilfully re-creating life as it was experienced in the great royal palaces and country houses.
Throughout, the inspired photographs by Mark Fiennes, together with reproductions of portraits and paintings, tapestries and personal objects, give the perfect visual expression of the nation’s evolving love affair with its queen.
Susan Watkins has received wide acclaim for her books Jane Austen: In Style and Mary Queen of Scots, both also published by Thames & Hudson. Mark Fiennes was an internationally renowned photographer who contributed to many books on architecture, landscapes and gardens.
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Shakespeare: Crowd, Court and Playhouse |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500286957 | | ISBN-13 978-0500286951 | | | | 25.0 x 24.0 cm | | Paperback | | 208pp | | 157 illustrations, 154 in colour | | First published 2007 | | | | £14.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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